How do I create a simple Octave distributable without installing Octave

Question

The Octave documentation on this subject is both intimidating and sparse.

I did not know where else to document the solution I found, so I am posting here. I apolog

Answer 1

Something I found when linking my custom m file into an Octave standalone:

1. Needed #include
2. Replace return 0; (as above) with clean_up_and_exit(0);

Without these steps my program repeatedly crashed on exit.